LillyLyle/Count MelancholiaRT'ed by William Gibson on Twitter:
and it's so very on the nose of the issue:
and it's so very on the nose of the issue:
xs4me2This 👆
Wiredfire@xs4me2 @LillyHerself not “this” unless backed up with data about how these various data centres source their energy.
Many have been and are increasingly using sustainable power, mostly because it’s actually more cost effective most of the time and they can do a little greenwashing as a bonus.
There are a multitude of reasons to dunk on LLMs / AI but power usage isn’t the “gotcha” many think it is.
Edit: It’s been fun but muting now to silence trolls 😆 🔇
@wiredfire @xs4me2 You can believe that, if it makes you feel better. But as long as there is still nuclear, and fossil fuels are still being burnt, and we are asked to keep our power usage down for essential things, and as long as the earth's climate continues being disrupted, then I'm afraid there's no excuse for it.
Rin3d@LillyHerself @wiredfire @xs4me2 Hold up. Why are you upset about nuclear? Its the single cleanest power source ever. The safest aswell even when you include both Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters. Meanwhile Solar is prone to breaking and leaching heavy metals like mercury into the ground, hydro decimates environments and changes the entire local ecological structure of an area, wind takes a ton of aluminum and is very specific on where it can be used.
Nuclear is the best power source.
datenwolf@Rin3d @LillyHerself @wiredfire @xs4me2 please don't spread misinformation about solar. There's zero mercury in any PV tech in wide use. The only toxic PV tech in commercial use is CdTe and that has been displaced by entirely nontoxic silicon tech PV over the past 10 years (give or take); I wouldn't even know where to buy a CdTe module these days.
@Rin3d @LillyHerself @wiredfire
If you have no idea what you are talking about, you should maybe also try to refrain from spreading total nonsense...
but then again there is the Dunning-Kruger effect of course...
EricGeneric@Rin3d @LillyHerself @wiredfire @xs4me2 I guess you take the nuclear wast home in your garage for storage the next… um… 1million years?
@EricGeneric @LillyHerself @wiredfire @xs4me2 Do you know 90% of nuclear waste is just PPE gear that we could eliminate simply by making self contained self regulating thorium reactors? There's really no reason to worry about nuclear waste we have plenty of places to store it for thousands of years without issue.
Anton@Rin3d I call BS and "russian troll."
Read and follow up on science. We don't have plenty of places either.
https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-waste-in-disused-german-mine-leaves-a-bitter-legacy/a-47420382
But sure, you can share your backyard for that remaining 10%.
Read and follow up on science. We don't have plenty of places either.
https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-waste-in-disused-german-mine-leaves-a-bitter-legacy/a-47420382
But sure, you can share your backyard for that remaining 10%.
